As part of our work to connect and represent research libraries in Europe, LIBER initiates and participates in strategic and innovative European projects. At the moment, LIBER is involved in nine EU projects, all to do with our three strategic directions: to enable open science, to lead in changings scholarship, and to shape innovative research.

1. LIBER
Working together towards World Class Research
Budapest, September 12, 2016
Melanie Imming, EU Projects Manager, LIBER

2. We’re Europe’s
largest
research
library
network.
Founded in 1971.
Based in The Hague.

3. EU Projects
As part of our work to
connect research libraries
in Europe, we participate in
strategic and innovative
European projects.

4. What I’ll be talking
about today
• How our LIBER EU Project activities fit in with the LIBER
Strategy
• Current Projects LIBER is involved in
• The Horizon 2020 Programme:
–How it works
–How to get involved
–Expectations and Benefits
• Project Highlights from the past year

5. LIBER
libraries
across
Europe.
We represent
over 400
libraries in and
outside
Europe.

6. LIBER
libraries
active in
EU
Projects..
..in which
LIBER Office
is also a
partner.

7. EU Projects

8. Scholarly Communication
& Research
Infrastructures
• OpenAire2020
• EUDAT
• OpenMinted
Reshaping the Research
Library
• AARC
Advocacy &
Communications
• FutureTDM
• Learn
EU Projects

9. Our current EU
Projects

10. OpenAIRE2020’s goal is to implement European Commission Open Access
policies and increase their impact by extending the infrastructure that will make it
possible to manage and monitor EC-funded research.
LIBER’s Role
LIBER leads the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot, aiming
to distribute a €4 million budget for funding Open Access
publishing fees for publications arising from FP7
projects across Europe.
50 partners
Our current EU
Projects

11. The Platform to Store, Access
and Reuse Research Data
EUDAT has built an online platform where research data can be stored. The
data on the platform is open. This makes it accessible and reusable for
researchers (from academia and industry), citizen scientists, policy makers, and
members of the public.
LIBER’s Role
LIBER leads a task on policy and planning for data access,
contributes to the research on environments and
requirements by libraries, and to the communications
activities.
33 partners
Our current EU
Projects

12. OpenMinted will build an online infrastructure that brings mining tools and open
data together on one platform. The mining tools will be interoperable, making it
possible to mine the data with many different mining tools.
LIBER’s Role
LIBER leads the Community Engagement and
Sustainability tasks, and plays a large role in the
Support and Training activities.
16 partners
Our current EU
Projects

13. Remote access to online resources is a strong requirement from academic
users. They should be able to login with their existing institutional credentials. To
achieve this, user databases from universities and academic institutions have to
be connected. AARC’s objectives are to deliver the design of an integrated
cross-discipline AAI framework and to increase the uptake of federated access.
LIBER’s Role
LIBER’s role in this project will be to gather contributions to a gap
analysis and to promote federated identity management to the
library community.
20 partners
Coordinator: Geant, International, but based in The Netherlands
Our current EU
Projects

14. FutureTDM seeks to improve uptake of text and data mining (TDM) in the EU for
research environments.
LIBER’s Role
LIBER’s role is to identify, engage and
communicate with all relevant stakeholders
including libraries, researchers, publishers, SMEs
and industry in order to stimulate discussion and
feedback on uptake barriers and solutions.
9 partners
Our current EU
Projects

15. The LEARN project raises awareness of research data management and policy
issues to institutions.
LIBER’s Role
LIBER leads the work on dissemination,
engaging its members through the LEARN
website and LEARN workshops.
5 partners
Our current EU
Projects

16. We help our
libraries to
produce world-
class research.
•Collaborative
•Cross border
•Cross discipline
•Increasingly data intensive
•Open

17. H2020 Programme
Horizon 2020 is the EC funded programme for research and
innovation
•Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs
and growth
•Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods,
safety and environment
•Strengthening the EU’s global position in research,
innovation and technology

18. H2020 Programme
1 Industrial leadership
2 Societal challenges
3 Excellent science

19. H2020 Programme
1 Industrial leadership
2 Societal challenges
3 Excellent science

20. Horizon 2020 is the EU funding programme for research
and innovation
•It runs from 2014 to 2020
•A €80 billion budget
•Interesting project calls for libraries
H2020 Programme

21. How to get involved?
•Identify interesting upcoming calls for proposals
• Starting point: EU Participants portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/
H2020 Programme

22. H2020 Programme

23. H2020 Programme

24. H2020 Programme

25. How to get involved?
•Identify interesting upcoming calls
• Starting point: EU Participants portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en
•Find your partners
• Ask around
• Contact LIBER
H2020 Programme

26. How to get involved?
•Identify interesting upcoming calls
• Starting point: EU Participants portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en
•Find your partners
• Ask around
• Contact LIBER
•Participate in writing a project proposal
H2020 Programme

27. Proposal:
•A description of Excellence, Impact and Work to be carried
out
•All Project Tasks are decribed in an Description of Action,
devided over different Work Packages
One partner acts as the Project Coordinator, the LIBER Office
leads several Work Packages, but does not coordinate
Projects
EU Projects

28. EU Projects

29. EU Projects

30. EU Projects

31. EU Projects
Expectations
•You get 25% overhead over all costs -but it does mean you
do have to report a lot!
•You can get a financial audit (5% randomly picked)
•If you are joining a consortium in submitting a proposal, you
commit yourself to doing the work as described in the
Description of Action

32. But… compared to earlier programmes (FP7) this H2020
programme is simplified in many ways:
•Single set of rules for all projects
•100% funding rate
•25% flat rate for overhead
•Simplified reporting process
EU Projects
Expectations

33. •Great opportunity for cross border cooperation
•Get to know your peers, but also others
•You get funding for things you find are important for your
institution
• Funding for people working on the project
• Funding for travel
• Funding for other direct costs like posters and videos
EU Projects
Benefits

34. “Participating in EU projects
enables the collaboration between
experts in a variety of countries
with various cultures and levels of
social structures, promotes
the introduction and establishment
of upcoming trends in all subject
fields in a unified way
and allows the integration
of existing services and tools with
new inventions and directions.”
-Nancy Pontika, Open
University

35. “For me participating in EU Projects means learning from
good practice overseas, building international networks
that bring together a range of perspectives and expertise,
and the opportunity to co-develop systems and services”
• Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre

36. Highlights from
this past year

37. The FutureTDM
series of
Knowledge Cafes

38. LEARN
Series of Workshops
‘Make Research
Data Management
work’

39. EUDAT
Guidelines on
Open Access
and Restricted
Data

40. A Green Light for
Open Access:
The
PASTEUR4OA
Final Conference

41. -547 granted funding
requests
-11 approved bids for
the Alternative Funding
Mechanism for APC-
free OA journals

42. The FOSTER Open
Science Training
Helsinki

43. The FOSTER
online
Open Science
Training for
librarians

44. Four Open Science
Cafes at the Dutch
Presidency Open
Science
Conference

45. Why get involved?
•Become a member of some of the large Project
Networks in Europe (EUDAT, OpenAire)
•Support Open Access and Open Science
•Work on Interoperability of Services
•Provide Training and develop the Workforce
•Advocate & Engage together

46. •“We are working with
LIBER on a European
project called LEARN.
LIBER is offering a lot of
services which create an
orientation for those
institutions that need
it. LIBER is like a star we
look at: if we need some
light, then we can ask
them.’’
Paulo Budroni, Vienna
University Library

47. Thank you!